st: RE: RE: RE: RE: Quick Saving

The behavior you are having is normal, and consistent with what Nick
wrote:
Opening a file from a directory other than the current working directory
does NOT change the current working directory.
. pwd
D:\DATA
. use D:\DATA\test\test.dta
. pwd
D:\DATA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nuno Soares
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 5:34 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: Quick Saving
Hi Nick,
I'm also using Stata 9.2. After your email I tried the following;
. use "C:\DATA\qksave\auto.dta", clear
. Save test
And stata saved the test.dta file in the "c:\data" directory not in the
"c:\data\qksave" directory. Maybe a default I've changed?
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 15 May 2006 22:27
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: RE: RE: Quick Saving
I don't know what Stata you are using.
I am using Stata 9.2, in which -save <filename>- saves to the current
directory or folder unless otherwise specified. I can't remember any
other
behaviour.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Alex Ogan
> Is `c(pwd)' what you want?
Nuno Soares
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a procedure that allows the user
> to save the current dataset in the current working directory without
> typing the all path, just the filename.
> If we don't specify the path, the -save- command saves the file in the
> default data directory. If we want to save in the current working
> directory (different from the default directory) I believe we have to
> write the complete path (which is extremely boring if we want to quick
> save several versions of the file after ).
> I've been trying to write a ado file that enables to do just that, but
> I don't know if Stata has a command that retrieves the current
> directory.
> The objective is to write a command like this: qksave filename.
> Can anyone help?
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